Movie: The Spirit of St. Louis

Part of the Take Flight:  Novel Destinations Film Series

This film is a biography of Charles Lindbergh’s historic but harrowing flight from New York to Paris in 1927.  In the form of flashbacks, we are taken through his life beginning with mail run flights, his design of a transatlantic plane and eventually to the flight that would change the course of history.  James Stewart, Murray Hamilton, Patricia Smith, and Bartlett Robinson are directed by Billy Wilder.  Action / Adventure - 135 minutes